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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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